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Tim Wise PUBLIC LECTURE TRANSCRIPT Tim Wise PUBLIC LECTURE TRANSCRIPT January 27, 2017 KANE HALL 130 | 7:30 P.M. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION, page 1 Dave Eaton, Dean of the UW Graduate School FEATURED SPEAKER, page 2 Tim Wise, Anti-racist writer, educator Q&A SESSION, page 14 OFFICE OF PUBLIC LECTURES some of those. So that's one way. The other way is, you'll see INTRODUCTION microphones on the side aisles there. Please go to the microphone and line up in an orderly way and we will work our way back and forth to those. Mr. Wise assured me that he would like to take as many questions as he can. We will Dave Eaton eventually probably run out of time but we’ll hopefully be able to get everybody in. Dean, UW Graduate School So, I know why you're all here, and you're here because Tim Good evening, everyone. I hope you're as excited as I am for Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and this evening. I'm Dave Eaton, and I'm the Dean of the Graduate educators in the United States of America. He spent his past 20 School and I am really thrilled to welcome you here this years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, over 1,000 college evening. I have a few things to take care of before we introduce campuses, high school campuses, hundreds of professional our speaker: the usual, please turn off your cell phones or at meetings, and community groups throughout the country. He's least put them on vibrate. There's not to be any recording, the author of many books, including his latest called Under the audio or visual recording tonight. So please be aware of that. Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing Many of you are aware that tonight's series was inspired by the Future of America. Other books include Dear White President Ana Mari Cauce’s Race and Equity Initiative more America: Letter to a New Minority, and his highly acclaimed than a year and a half ago. But it was also inspired by you. memoir, I'm sure many of you read this, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. That's just to name a Last year, we had a series on equity and difference. How many few. He's, was named one of 25 visionaries who are changing of you attended any of those? Yeah, quite a few of you. So, you your world by Utne Reader. He's contributed chapters to over, know, that at the end of each one of these lectures, we have a and essays to over 25 additional books and his writings are questionnaire and we will ask you tonight to fill that taught in colleges and universities throughout the nation. His questionnaire out. And last year we did a questionnaire after essays have appeared in Salon, Huffington Post, The Root, Black each one and one of the questions was “What would you like to Commentator, and Z Magazine, among other popular and see this year?” And overwhelmingly, you told us you wanted to professional and scholarly journals From 1999 to 2003, Wise create a safe space to talk about privilege. And we listened. And was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in here we are tonight. Nashville. Tonight, we proudly present our inaugural lecture addressing Some years ago, he was here in Seattle having a debate with privilege and the intersection of politics. Now, I don't want to Tim Eyman. How many of you were at that debate? In the early say that we were clairvoyant, about nine months ago, when we, 90s, early 90s, he was Youth Coordinator and Associate Director when we invited our speaker tonight, Mr. Wise, but what of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the incredible timing we have, there's never been a time when his largest of many groups organized for the purpose of defeating words are going to be more important to listen to. This is the neo Nazi political candidate, David Duke. He's been featured in sixth of our 10 scheduled lectures that will address privilege several documentaries including the 2013 Media Education within the realm of race, history, education, arts and Foundation release, White Like Me: Race, Racism and White environment. So, we hope to see you again and again and again Privilege in America. He’s also appeared alongside legendary and again. So please remember to complete your post-lecture scholar and activist Angela Davis. And in the, in the 2011 survey because we do listen and it does make a difference for documentary, Vocabulary of Change. He appears regularly on how we schedule our lectures in the coming year. CNN and MSNBC to discuss race issues and was featured in a Now, at the end of the lecture this evening, you will have an 2007 segment on Twenty Twenty. opportunity to ask questions. And there's two ways that you Mr. Wise graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and can do that. One is you can text us a question, and it's very received anti-racism training from the People's Institute for simple. You saw it on the screen earlier. It's simply mayIask, M- Survival and Beyond in New Orleans. Please join me in A-Y-I-A-S-K, [email protected]. And those questions will pop up welcoming Mr. Tim Wise. on my little pad here and I will sort through those and read OFFICE OF PUBLIC LECTURES 1 elected. That is white privilege. I want you to imagine that Barack Obama, while he was campaigning, was encouraging his FEATURED SPEAKER supporters at rallies to beat up people protesting him because, remember, there were lots of protesters outside of Obama's rallies, they were carrying sock monkey dolls made to look like the president. They were carrying signs that told him to go back to Kenya. They were yelling things like “bomb Obama” at Tim Wise rallies, right? Imagine that Barack Obama had said to his followers inside the hall, “just beat the hell out of them and I Anti-racist writer, educator will pay your legal fees.” Imagine the likelihood that a man such Nice crowd. They told me this hall seats 720. But I'm doing, I'm as that, a Black man such as that, would become president of doing the Trump math. And so I think there’s at least a million the United States. If you can even fathom the possibility that of you. Just great. It's great. I'm going to demand a picture that such a thing would have happened, as it did, in fact happen this actually demonstrates a million of you. I'd like for UW security year when the current president encouraged his followers to to get on that please as quickly as possible so I don't have to beat up protesters and said that he would pay their legal fees call the Park Service. Yeah, it's going to be that kind of night. It's which was just one of another thousand lies that he told during good to be back. It's good to be back here at Kane Hall at UW. the campaign because he didn't actually step up to do that, And as you heard in the introduction, you know, there's a little surprise. If you believe that Barack Obama could still become bit, again, it was certainly not clairvoyance. But there were folks president while encouraging violence on the part of his who wanted to put this event together, I think before we knew, supporters, especially if they happened to have been some of sort of, you know, what we know. And the idea originally, which his Black or brown supporters in those rally halls, then you are I think was a good one, was that this talk would be about sort on the bad crack and probably need to get clean. Because there of, you know, white privilege talk, I don't know if it was is no way that a person of color could have said those things, intended to be sort of a generic white privilege talk or been taken seriously as a candidate, and become president of whatever, you know, because I talk about that stuff a lot. And the United States. so maybe that was the idea. And I was fine with that, you know, But white privilege, if it is nothing else, is the ability of I had my outline already for that. I was good. I had it on my incredible, almost stunning mediocrity to rise to the top calendar, and then some shit happened. And then, and then anyway, so long as it comes in an alabaster shell. It is the ability the shit that happened, makes it necessary to alter the remarks, of white folks with very little actual skill, talent and an awful lot you know, just a wee little bit, not because the stuff that of hot air and even potentially criminal behavior to find happened isn't about white privilege, because it sure as hell is themselves in positions of high power anyway. White privilege in about a million ways that we really don't have enough time is the ability to take over your father's 230 million dollar real to rattle off this evening, but I will mention a few. And then I estate empire and then still convince people that you’re a self- want to get back into the larger substance of what needs to be made man and billionaire by dint of your own hard work and said.
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